If you could get any decent 3D modelling software on Lunix. The choice of Blender, Blender or Blender just doesn't cut it compared to Hash, 3DS Max, Lightwave, Maya, Truespace or any other of the wide range of options available to Mac and Windows users.
It's called capitalism. It works. Get used to it. If offshoring makes sense, companies will do it. If it does not make sense, they will not do it. That's how it works. Engineers don't know anything about finance. That's why most successful companies don't have engineers talking about finance. I'm just posting this pre-emptively before a bunch of engineers start talking about the finances of offshoring. And, yes I'm an engineer too.
I worked for a bank for a few years (in a country far away, where they have numbered accounts and you're actually looking at jail time for revealing customer data) and something like this was just unheard of.
The absolute main security issue was customer data. Not that they would have fancied embezzlement or theft but this was looked upon far less serious then compromising customer data, period.
In the data centers (which you had to physically access in order to query real customer data, safe for the front office and also there it was very restricted what you could look at) you had to go through multiple layers of security and where not permitted to even remove a printout.
Computers where dismanteled and disks shredded, they where never for resale. This was applicable for every last computer from every last branch and office
Now, I agree shit happens. Probably in their case it started with outsourcing such a critical tasks to "ACMEs chep disk blanking operation" in order to save a few bucks. This is not really excusable, but it happens.
But what really gets my blood boiling are statements like the one from that PR bimbo, which are just utter bullshit.
Maybe she should apply for a job at Microsoft to sell "trustworthy computing".
I've long been disappointed that biotech is so damn conservative about trying to just go for it and take some chances. We're all dying after all. It's like the absurdity of cancer therapies that can't be tried on terminally patients because they might have side effects. Jesus Christ on a crutch, that's like some kind of absurd joke.
Indeed, I'm testing the waters of bionformatics myself lately so I can stop compaining and do something about it. But that's another story.
What caught my eye was the thing about being able to use stem cells. The whole stem cell story is so amazing and yet it seems that there's this amazing potential and nobody wants to try anything amazing with it. The attitude is like, yes this is amazing but we can't use it in amazing ways because it's experimental and we don't know what might happen.
If I had a research budget and I was in this competition, my idea would be to create embryonic stem cells of my mouse and just inject them into the thing like it was a pin cushion. Damn the torpedos.
So what's the worse things that's going to happen? A dead lab rat? What if the thing stays young forever? Let's pick up the pace people!
It seems most geeks would rather have paedophiles were able to exchange child porn freely than have someone read their ultimately fucking tedious and worthless emails. I mean, you're geeks, FFS. You should be campaigning for the poor fuckers who have to read your rejected Star Trek erotic furry fanfiction, not bitching about how someone might come across your anti-Microsoft rants that no one except for a few obsessive autistics could care about
If you want secure mail, get your own server. Try some initiative for a change. You aren't in High School any longer, so there's no more jocks around to steal your lunch money
Bioware have turned crap. NWN was an uninspired hack and slash. SOU and HOTU were good, but too short and too linear.
KOTOR was a very pretty, overdeveloped and underwritten POS with all the balancing of a news report on FOX
Additionally, they now have a very close relationship with Microsoft, which means if they did Fallout 3 it would be XBox exclusive
Increases in computer power and wide availability of previously obscure and expensive software has led to big problems for CGI companies. Expect massive losses to be posted by ILM later this year
Obviously, no one would want to handle the complexity of a swordfight in all it's glory, so RPGs simplify this-it is made clear that an attack roll represents an opportunity taken in a heated exchange of blows, that hitpoints represent luck and experience as much as the possible maximum damage taken etc. Players are then able to visualise the action
The first problem is the stupidity of the hitpoint system at high levels-D+D originally only went up to level 6, where the abstraction worked. At level 20 it becomes a hindrance, as players survive lethal situations with ease. In part due to the success of hack and slash games like Diablo and unoriginal Japanese RPGs, designers now feel compelled to allow the player to reach godlike levels
The second problem is that computers don't need abstraction-they can deal with complexity, and provide a limited level of visualisation. As such players lose the level of abstraction. This encourages powergaming, which makes balancing near impossible
The main problem encountered here is that a system designed primarily for abstraction, that relies on mental visualisation to compensate for the abstraction, is being ported to an environment where complexity can be handled and arbitrary visualisation is provided. Additionally, IMO hitpoints really don't work representationally after a set point.
BTW, I'd like to just point out that I haven't touched a P+P game since I was 12
Common sense can be deceptive. Common sense says that outsourcing will destroy American jobs, but actually, in the long run, outsourcing will help to preserve jobs and Western society.
How? First, please visit the web site that explains "H-1B Myths ". Professor Matloff, who teaches computer science at a top-notch university, has campaigned tirelessly to terminate the H-1B program.
Anyhow, we have only 2 choices.
1. H-1B employment but no outsourcing.
2. Outsourcing but no H-1B employment.
The second choice is best and will result in the long-term gain of jobs for Americans. The United States of America (USA) is a big market, and companies will set up shop in the USA once their share of the market reaches a certain critical size. As well, domestic content laws facilitate this trend. Toyota and Honda are excellent examples; they have built huge manufacturing and design facilities in the USA.
Further, by terminating H-1B employment, you ensure that American jobs stay with Americans.
The second choice also directly deals with the strongest bogus argument by unethical American companies like Intel and possibly Google. Even when Silicon Valley has 8% unemployment, they insist that cannot find American workers for critical jobs and that they must hire H-1Bs. We in the Slashdot community should say, "Fine. Go set up shop overseas. There is plenty of labor there."
Geek jobs come under threat. Suddenly geeks lose libertarian leanings* and belatedly side with the ex-manufacturing workers who bullied them through High School
*For ENTIRELY unrelated reasons, obviously. No hypocrisy here at all
Slashdot Mirror
If you could get any decent 3D modelling software on Lunix. The choice of Blender, Blender or Blender just doesn't cut it compared to Hash, 3DS Max, Lightwave, Maya, Truespace or any other of the wide range of options available to Mac and Windows users.
A noted and famous hacker
Does this mean I can't use the "I don't want to start a holy war, but" troll anymore?
I think it's the personal addressing and the crap formatting. Are all the modalities assured in this risk free venture?
With amazing computer skills. I expect it will go down well with Slashdot readers
It's called capitalism. It works. Get used to it. If offshoring makes sense, companies will do it. If it does not make sense, they will not do it. That's how it works. Engineers don't know anything about finance. That's why most successful companies don't have engineers talking about finance. I'm just posting this pre-emptively before a bunch of engineers start talking about the finances of offshoring. And, yes I'm an engineer too.
I worked for a bank for a few years (in a country far away, where they have numbered accounts and you're actually looking at jail time for revealing customer data) and something like this was just unheard of.
The absolute main security issue was customer data. Not that they would have fancied embezzlement or theft but this was looked upon far less serious then compromising customer data, period.
In the data centers (which you had to physically access in order to query real customer data, safe for the front office and also there it was very restricted what you could look at) you had to go through multiple layers of security and where not permitted to even remove a printout.
Computers where dismanteled and disks shredded, they where never for resale. This was applicable for every last computer from every last branch and office
Now, I agree shit happens. Probably in their case it started with outsourcing such a critical tasks to "ACMEs chep disk blanking operation" in order to save a few bucks. This is not really excusable, but it happens.
But what really gets my blood boiling are statements like the one from that PR bimbo, which are just utter bullshit.
Maybe she should apply for a job at Microsoft to sell "trustworthy computing".
I've long been disappointed that biotech is so damn conservative about trying to just go for it and take some chances. We're all dying after all. It's like the absurdity of cancer therapies that can't be tried on terminally patients because they might have side effects. Jesus Christ on a crutch, that's like some kind of absurd joke.
Indeed, I'm testing the waters of bionformatics myself lately so I can stop compaining and do something about it. But that's another story.
What caught my eye was the thing about being able to use stem cells. The whole stem cell story is so amazing and yet it seems that there's this amazing potential and nobody wants to try anything amazing with it. The attitude is like, yes this is amazing but we can't use it in amazing ways because it's experimental and we don't know what might happen.
If I had a research budget and I was in this competition, my idea would be to create embryonic stem cells of my mouse and just inject them into the thing like it was a pin cushion. Damn the torpedos.
So what's the worse things that's going to happen? A dead lab rat? What if the thing stays young forever? Let's pick up the pace people!
it is grade A researchers
Half of whom aren't American and weren't educated in America
To Guantanamo Bay. Let them try selling Viagra to Islamic fundamentalists
It seems most geeks would rather have paedophiles were able to exchange child porn freely than have someone read their ultimately fucking tedious and worthless emails. I mean, you're geeks, FFS. You should be campaigning for the poor fuckers who have to read your rejected Star Trek erotic furry fanfiction, not bitching about how someone might come across your anti-Microsoft rants that no one except for a few obsessive autistics could care about
If you want secure mail, get your own server. Try some initiative for a change. You aren't in High School any longer, so there's no more jocks around to steal your lunch money
Bioware have turned crap.
NWN was an uninspired hack and slash. SOU and HOTU were good, but too short and too linear.
KOTOR was a very pretty, overdeveloped and underwritten POS with all the balancing of a news report on FOX
Additionally, they now have a very close relationship with Microsoft, which means if they did Fallout 3 it would be XBox exclusive
Increases in computer power and wide availability of previously obscure and expensive software has led to big problems for CGI companies. Expect massive losses to be posted by ILM later this year
Quiet Death
Not with a bang but a whimper etc etc
Mobile phones only give us 1/2 the conversation
What proof do we have that this isn't some hideous spyware project?
Obviously, no one would want to handle the complexity of a swordfight in all it's glory, so RPGs simplify this-it is made clear that an attack roll represents an opportunity taken in a heated exchange of blows, that hitpoints represent luck and experience as much as the possible maximum damage taken etc. Players are then able to visualise the action
The first problem is the stupidity of the hitpoint system at high levels-D+D originally only went up to level 6, where the abstraction worked. At level 20 it becomes a hindrance, as players survive lethal situations with ease. In part due to the success of hack and slash games like Diablo and unoriginal Japanese RPGs, designers now feel compelled to allow the player to reach godlike levels The second problem is that computers don't need abstraction-they can deal with complexity, and provide a limited level of visualisation. As such players lose the level of abstraction. This encourages powergaming, which makes balancing near impossible
The main problem encountered here is that a system designed primarily for abstraction, that relies on mental visualisation to compensate for the abstraction, is being ported to an environment where complexity can be handled and arbitrary visualisation is provided. Additionally, IMO hitpoints really don't work representationally after a set point.
BTW, I'd like to just point out that I haven't touched a P+P game since I was 12
Indeed. I long for the days of English devolution
Lobbying by nearly all corporations is bad and evil.
Lobbying by Redhat, Mandrake et al is good and in no way interferes with the democratic process?
Common sense can be deceptive. Common sense says that outsourcing will destroy American jobs, but actually, in the long run, outsourcing will help to preserve jobs and Western society.
How? First, please visit the web site that explains "H-1B Myths ". Professor Matloff, who teaches computer science at a top-notch university, has campaigned tirelessly to terminate the H-1B program.
Anyhow, we have only 2 choices.
1. H-1B employment but no outsourcing.
2. Outsourcing but no H-1B employment.
The second choice is best and will result in the long-term gain of jobs for Americans. The United States of America (USA) is a big market, and companies will set up shop in the USA once their share of the market reaches a certain critical size. As well, domestic content laws facilitate this trend. Toyota and Honda are excellent examples; they have built huge manufacturing and design facilities in the USA.
Further, by terminating H-1B employment, you ensure that American jobs stay with Americans.
The second choice also directly deals with the strongest bogus argument by unethical American companies like Intel and possibly Google. Even when Silicon Valley has 8% unemployment, they insist that cannot find American workers for critical jobs and that they must hire H-1Bs. We in the Slashdot community should say, "Fine. Go set up shop overseas. There is plenty of labor there."
Geek jobs come under threat. Suddenly geeks lose libertarian leanings* and belatedly side with the ex-manufacturing workers who bullied them through High School
*For ENTIRELY unrelated reasons, obviously. No hypocrisy here at all
Google aims for monopoly share, Slashdot prints neutral article.
Any guesses on the tone if this was Microsoft?
Massive design flaw found in Apple product, Slashdot prints neutral article. Any bets on the tone if Microsoft made the IPod?
As the Barbie Liberation Army